Debt and death in rural India : The Punjab Story /
Sidhu, Aman
Debt and death in rural India : The Punjab Story / Aman Sidhu with Inderjit Singh Jaijee - 1st ed. - New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2011. - xx, 335 pp. ; 23 cm.
This volume explores the crisis of farmer suicides in rural Punjab from the mid-1980s through 2008. Grounded in extensive empirical fieldwork, it examines how centralized policies, regional water disputes, declining executive powers of the state, and systemic agricultural debt have converged to place a severe economic and psychological burden on Punjab's small peasantry, while addressing the politics of mortuary statistics.
9788132106531
Agriculture and state
Economic conditions
Farmers Suicidal behavior
Rural conditions
362.280 SID
Debt and death in rural India : The Punjab Story / Aman Sidhu with Inderjit Singh Jaijee - 1st ed. - New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2011. - xx, 335 pp. ; 23 cm.
This volume explores the crisis of farmer suicides in rural Punjab from the mid-1980s through 2008. Grounded in extensive empirical fieldwork, it examines how centralized policies, regional water disputes, declining executive powers of the state, and systemic agricultural debt have converged to place a severe economic and psychological burden on Punjab's small peasantry, while addressing the politics of mortuary statistics.
9788132106531
Agriculture and state
Economic conditions
Farmers Suicidal behavior
Rural conditions
362.280 SID
